Comedy 4 men, 4 women. Interior
Sara Goode, an enormously successful American woman working as the British representative of a major Hong Kong bank, is about to celebrate her 54th birthday and. she isn't exactly too happy about it. Firmly ensconced in her lovely London home, she leads a quiet, almost cold, expatriate life with her daughter, Tess. For the birthday celebration, her two sisters, Gorgeous Teitelbaum (Dr. Gorgeous, loving housewife and mother, of Newton, MA, who has her own call-in radio advice program and hopes to make the leap to TV), and Pfeni Rosensweig (peripatetic third-world travel writer, alas, unmarried), are expected to arrive at any moment.
As if this weren't causing Sara enough stress, Mervyn Kant shows
up at her door and she doesn't even know the man, who, at first
sight, is instantly smitten with her. Mervyn is a furrier, and
a friend of Geoffrey's, the on again off again, bisexual lover
of Pfeni. After her sisters arrive for the celebration, Tess and
her boyfriend, Tom, turn up and advise her that they're planning
on rushing off to his ancestral Lithuania for reasons of political
protest. Next to arrive is Nicholas, the stuffy Brit whom Sara
has been "seeing" although he seems somewhat anti-Semitic. All
of this adds up to a rather interesting evening, which leads to
unexpected romance, suspected partings, recriminations, reconciliations
and, above all, newfound love and acceptance.